Thank you all for sharing your thoughts. So far it was very helpful for me.
Now, I'm in the process of freeing up the SSD in order to make room for a clean install. Very time consuming this sorting out of what to keep and what to delete. Also, keep moving chunks of folders from the SSD to all the other storage places (NAS, USB sticks, external HDDs, internal HDDs, cloud storage, even SD cards) almost made me completely loose track of what I copied and where.
Being the kind of data hoarder I am, it all ended up buying a 8TB disk, and calling it a delayed Santa and not hoarding.
Questions- Inside the PC's case, there is a 512GB SSD. I will ask about this one later.
- The 8TB HDD will most probably stay outside the PC's case (the motherboard has an external SATA connector, with power).
1. Already decided to use GPT, and don't bother with MBR any more. How to partition an 8TB HDD? A single partition, or many? Or just made one reasonable big partition for now, and let the rest for future partitions or resizings?
2. What file system to use?
3. I am planning to drop NTFS completely for the 8TB disk, yet most of the old data that will populate it is coming from NTFS partitions. On Windows, there was only one user, so I am not concerned with preserving the Windows access rights. Is there any good reason to still keep using NTFS for the new 8TB?
Later edit:
I would like to preserve the file date, thought, at least the creation date.